[boc-l] Good article about the reality of the music business for senior bands like BOC

[Carl Edlund Anderson]

Well, so much news and discussion these days has moved (for good or ill) to social media platforms, I had actually almost forgotten that good ol’ BOC-L exists until I saw these emails!

Yeah, Eric is right: recorded music doesn’t pay. It has become principally an advertisement for live music. And quite likely older bands (I’ve seen various articles about older artists returning to the stage because that’s how ya gotta pay the bills!) with extensive and well-known back catalogs don’t have much incentive to write and record new material to serve as advertisements for their touring.  You also see the arguments that a well-established older artist could “damage their legacy” with a cruddy new song, and I have to admit that I see the argument (whether or not it might be the case), as much as it disappoints me.

I can’t say that I am hugely disappointed that musicians need to gig to make money.  I don't get to a lot of gigs these days, but I come from a background in which live performance was considered “king” anyway.  Hit the stage and rock, people! :)  On the other hand, I do lament the diminished of incentive for artists with a solid roster of live songs to actually compose new stuff.

Oh well!  That’s the topsy-turvy music business for you!

Meanwhile, since none of it affects me anyway, here are some links to my recently recorded cover of Bob Calvert’s/Hawkwind’s “The Right Stuff”:
https://soundcloud.com/carledlundanderson/the-right-stuff <https://soundcloud.com/carledlundanderson/the-right-stuff>
https://www.reverbnation.com/carledlundanderson/song/28351655-right-stuff-bob-calverthawkwind <https://www.reverbnation.com/carledlundanderson/song/28351655-right-stuff-bob-calverthawkwind>


Yeah, yeah, I know: Mining other people’s back catalogs! :D  Well, I pick away at my own new stuff as well (at least as fast as BÖC do! :D ).
Oh, did I post “She Rides” here? That’s a semi-recent original song: 
https://carledlundanderson.bandcamp.com/track/she-rides <https://carledlundanderson.bandcamp.com/track/she-rides>
https://soundcloud.com/carledlundanderson/she-rides <https://soundcloud.com/carledlundanderson/she-rides>
https://www.reverbnation.com/carledlundanderson/song/28065977-she-rides <https://www.reverbnation.com/carledlundanderson/song/28065977-she-rides>

Cheers,
Carl

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Carl Edlund Anderson
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https://carledlundanderson.bandcamp.com/ <https://carledlundanderson.bandcamp.com/>
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> On 04 Aug 2017, at 05:57, Jonathan Jarrett via boc-l <boc-l at lists.ispnet.net> wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 4 Aug 2017, EMF via boc-l wrote:
> 
>> Featuring Eric Bloom.  An perhaps a brief hope for future music...
>> 
>> http://www.ocweekly.com/music/blue-oyster-cults-eric-bloom-is-a-road-warrior-but-says-albums-dont-pay-8256912
> 
> 	Thanks for posting that, it's actually quite encouraging in a grim way. The economics of it make sense, though there's a third way there where a good new song might find a public via the streaming and Internet distributions of which they seem so wary. But I would actually like to see this band do something else before they quit. I should also go see them again but they seem to have given up on touring in the UK, just doing festivals now. But people I know who've seen them there have given better reports than I'd have expected.
> 
> 	I am so behind with it all, though. I only found out there was new Hawkwind just after the tour finished this May and I still haven't got it. Not because I don't care, just because I'm buying music in dribs and drabs from Discogs.com now and so don't see the kind of advertising to remind me that I used to. And of course, there was no mention of it here... But new BOC would also be good, as ever. I do play CotHM every now and then, mainly for 'Dance on Stilts' and 'Good to Be Hungry'. It means kind of tuning out the rest, of course... Yours all,
> 					     Jonathan
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> 
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> 	Jonathan Jarrett, Leeds      jjarrett at chiark.greenend.org.uk
> 	"May the Lord Almighty guard your life, because among other
> things it is of great value in silencing the idiocies of blatherskites."
>  (Archbishop Lanfranc of Canterbury to Archbishop John of Rouen, 1073)
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